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Building Safety Act 2022 compliance tool

BSA 2022 (c. 30) · United Kingdom · Binding instrument

Name anyone on your staff. The system makes them your compliance person.

A member of your own staff, with no compliance background, reads the training module, answers the interview, and finishes with your Building Safety Act 2022 documentation cited article by article. The knowledge stays in the business.

Every account level runs inside a dedicated Claude account. Anyone can try a toolkit in their own Claude account; compliance work runs in a dedicated one. The Claude Max plan is £90 a month, paid to Anthropic, and is not included in any level.

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Building Safety Act 2022 is BSA 2022 (c. 30), a binding instrument in the United Kingdom. Building safety regime, dutyholder requirements and higher-risk building rules.

The free assessment screens for Building Safety Act 2022 when a business carries out construction or building work.

Sectors this instrument reaches: construction; architecture and design; property management; building control.

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• Your exact position under Building Safety Act 2022: what is in place, what is missing, and what to do about each gap.
• Documentation with article citations, ready for auditors, insurers, customers and public buyers.
• A trained person inside the business who understands what the regulation requires, and stays.
• A dated record of every section completed, with the reports themselves staying in your own Claude account. The toolkit is carried by an account level, see the plans.
• All of it completed in-house, at your own pace, without booking a single meeting.

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Does Building Safety Act 2022 apply to my business?

The Building Safety Act 2022 applies to you if you carry on business activities connected with the design, construction, management or maintenance of buildings in England, or for some provisions in Wales. It also applies if you are an accountable person, a principal accountable person, a landlord, a managing agent, a developer, a construction product manufacturer or supplier, or a fire safety consultant whose activity touches a higher-risk building or the wider building control regime.

Who does Building Safety Act 2022 apply to?

It applies to accountable persons and principal accountable persons for higher-risk buildings, residents and owners of residential units in those buildings, persons in the built environment industry including registered building inspectors and registered building control approvers, local authorities acting as building control authorities, fire and rescue authorities, authorised persons under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and dutyholders under Schedule 1 paragraph 5B of the Building Act 1984.

Does Building Safety Act 2022 apply to a small business?

The Act has no size threshold. Landlords, managing agents, developers, construction product manufacturers and suppliers, and fire safety consultants of any size are captured wherever their activity touches a higher-risk building, a relevant building for remediation purposes, or the wider building control regime.

When does Building Safety Act 2022 apply from, and what are the deadlines?

The Act received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022 and commenced in stages between 28 April 2022 and 1 July 2026, with Part 3 substantially in force from 16 January 2024. Deadlines include 28 days to apply for a building assessment certificate when directed (section 79(2)), 7 days for information to a local authority on transfer (section 51, inserting section 53C(5)), 14 days for insolvency notification (section 125A(5)), and 21 days for a transfer certificate and report (section 51, inserting section 53B).

What does Building Safety Act 2022 require me to do?

You must register an occupied higher-risk building (section 77), apply for a building assessment certificate when directed (section 79), carry out building safety risk assessment and mitigation (sections 83 and 84), prepare a safety case report (section 85), keep records (section 88), operate a residents' engagement strategy (section 91) and a complaints system (section 93), and cooperate and coordinate with other accountable persons and fire safety responsible persons (section 109).

What records or documents does Building Safety Act 2022 require me to keep or produce?

You must keep records under section 88 and produce the safety case report on request to the regulator under section 86. You must also give prescribed information to the regulator and operate mandatory occurrence reporting under section 87, and comply with Schedule 2 paragraph 4 information requirements, which an authorised officer may require by written notice.

What happens if I do not comply with Building Safety Act 2022?

Occupying a relevant residential unit before a completion certificate is issued (section 76(2)) and occupying an unregistered higher-risk building (section 77(1)) are offences carrying up to 2 years imprisonment on indictment or a fine, or both, with a daily default fine for the section 77 offence. The critical risk offence under section 101(1) carries the same maximum penalties, and officers of a body corporate may be personally liable under section 161.

How do I start complying with Building Safety Act 2022?

The first practical step is registering an occupied higher-risk building under section 77, alongside the duty not to occupy a relevant residential unit before a completion certificate is issued under section 76.

Which ComplianceSME account includes the Building Safety Act 2022 toolkit?

The Building Safety Act 2022 agent toolkit is included from the Medium level.

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